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Good news for search, in the general sense of the word! You can now download Google Maps for Android to view offline. So, if you’re no good at operating machinery while driving (hopefully you do pretty well behind the wheel, at least) you can have a physical print-out of your directions to get you to [...]

Apparently, there’s a rumor that Samsung is going to be the first to premiere the Ice Cream Sandwich, Google’s android platform for smartphones.
About Ice Cream Sandwich, it was said that the smartphone would share some of the same features of Honeycomb – the mobile OS for Android tablets. I talked a bit about tablets [...]

Recently Google improved their image search so that when users search for given images the size is enlarged when you scroll over it with your mouse. They also started to include dates associated with images. The date identifies when an image was posted or found (X hours ago, 1 day ago).
Rather than using information to [...]

Google attempted to acquire Path for $100 million. Path is an online network where you can share photos and videos with 50 friends and/or family members of your choice. Google said they really liked Paths’ design and team.
Path declined Google’s offer because apparently the terms were sort of unclear. Dave Morin, who used to work [...]

After the first of the year, Google released Honeycomb – the mobile operating system created in response to Apple’s iPad, which leads in the tablet market. I talked about Honeycomb : iPad :: Latitude : Foursquare in a post back in February. For their pre-launch, Google was giving away the Honeycomb software to hardware manufacturers [...]

For those of you interested in algorithmic changes, Google has made improvements to the February ”Panda” update that was supposed to free the SERPs from low-quality content farms. Last month, an update was rolled out that brought Panda to worldwide English searches occurring outside of the google.com domain.
Google Fellow Amit Singhal, in a press release dated [...]

Guest blogger: Tara Cuccia
Workers Leaving the Googleplex from Andrew Norman Wilson on Vimeo.
Really bizarre. An ex-Google and Transvideo (contracted with Google) employee began an investigation into what scan ops workers do and why they are excluded from Google perks and benefits. In his video, he points out differences he experienced as well.
He filmed non-scan ops [...]

Walker Digital, an interactive R&D firm and founder of Priceline.com, has dropped the lawsuit hammer on Google, alleging that the search company’s Offers service has used intellectual property without permission. The patents in question are:
•7,039,603: “Settlement systems and methods wherein a buyer takes possession at a retailer of a product.”
•6,249,772: “Systems and methods wherein a [...]

Guest blogger: Tara Cuccia
Google! Still trying to carve out a niche in social media … and find new ways to generate advertising dollars. +1. It’s Google’s equivalent of Facebook’s “Like” button. Just like all of Google’s services, you must have a Google account/profile in order to participate. This might prompt surfers to join the Google [...]

In an official blog post on Monday, Google pointed out that Bing has been using search results that seem to have come from Google’s engine.
The controversy began when Google employees noticed similarities in search results between the two engines before and after correcting typographical errors for a variety of queries. Employees then set up a [...]